M. N. Srinivas

Padma Bhushan M. N. Srinivas HonFBA
Born	(1916-11-16)16 November 1916 Iyengar , Mysore, Kingdom of Mysore, British India (now in Karnataka, India)
Died	30 November 1999(1999-11-30) (aged 83) Bangalore (now Bengaluru), Karnataka, India
Nationality	Indian
Spouse	Rukmini Srinivas
Awards	Padma Bhushan (1977)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford, University of Mumbai
Influences	Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology, Social Anthropology
Main interests	Indian Society, Caste system in India
Notable works	The Remembered Village, Indian Society through Personal Writings, Village, Caste, Gender and Method: Essays in Indian Social Anthropology
Notable ideas	Sanskritization, Inter and intra-caste solidarity

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Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (16 November 1916 – 30 November 1999)^[1] was an Indian sociologist and social anthropologist.^[2] He is mostly known for his work on caste and caste systems, social stratification, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in southern India and the concept of 'dominant caste'. He is considered to be one of the pioneering personalities in the field of sociology and social anthropology in India as his work in Rampura (later published as The Remembered Village) remains one of the early examples of ethnography in India. That was in contrast to most of his contemporaries of the Bombay School, who focused primarily on a historical methodology to conduct research, mainly in Indology. He also founded the Department of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi in 1959.^[3]